I noticed something interesting in the past few days and had to mention it. Savvy Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny quickly pointed out a lockin issue with My Yahoo before somebody else did.

The discussion started on Jason Calacanis' blog over problems he was having exporting his Gmail contacts. Soon Jason created a post detailing Lockin on various web sites.

Jeremy posted about Jason's problems and said:

You can't get an OPML export of your My Yahoo! subscriptions either. Someday it'll probably happen, but for now there's no easy way to get that data either.

There are countless examples of this on-line. GMail and My Yahoo! are hardly the worst out there. What's the worst you've seen?

Somebody else was bound to point out that My Yahoo lacked this feature, but it's much better for Yahoo to make the statement first and lead the discussion.